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codima

Jointly with Sergey Shpectorov (Birmingham), I am organising a GAP Tutorial in Birmingham on August 13th-14th. It will immediately follow Groups St Andrews 2017 in Birmingham, and I hope that some participants will be interested to stay for it. Participation is open to everyone, and there is a limited financial support available to PhD students from UK Universities, provided by CCP CoDiMa. Please see this page for further details and registration link. Read more

Following the 2nd CoDiMa training school, I have published the Software Carpentry lesson on GAP via Zenodo: see 10.5281/zenodo.167362. The lesson is based on the problem of determining an average order of an element of a finite group, and finding examples of groups for which the average order of their elements is an integer. First I have heard about this problem when Steve Linton used it in a talk in order to quickly demonstrate some GAP features to a general scientific audience. I have tried to expand on it in my talk in Newcastle in May 2015 (see the blog post here), and decided to proceed with it. Read more

research software

This post is based on my answer to the question “Royal way to learn algorithmic/computational/computer algebra” asked at Mathematics Q&A site by Jakob Werner. The questions asks for a book recommendation, and then more specifically asks whether is it important to have a book focusing on one CAS explicitly; which CAS to decide for; where does the programming experience come from; and how to check the written code is good. Read more

software carpentry

Jointly with Sergey Shpectorov (Birmingham), I am organising a GAP Tutorial in Birmingham on August 13th-14th. It will immediately follow Groups St Andrews 2017 in Birmingham, and I hope that some participants will be interested to stay for it. Participation is open to everyone, and there is a limited financial support available to PhD students from UK Universities, provided by CCP CoDiMa. Please see this page for further details and registration link. Read more

Following the 2nd CoDiMa training school, I have published the Software Carpentry lesson on GAP via Zenodo: see 10.5281/zenodo.167362. The lesson is based on the problem of determining an average order of an element of a finite group, and finding examples of groups for which the average order of their elements is an integer. First I have heard about this problem when Steve Linton used it in a talk in order to quickly demonstrate some GAP features to a general scientific audience. I have tried to expand on it in my talk in Newcastle in May 2015 (see the blog post here), and decided to proceed with it. Read more